[GRASS-user] Update on DOI usage for GRASS

[Peter Löwe]

Hello List,

happy new 2025 to everybody.

Here are some things which might be of interest or even useful:

Since 2024 the number of COI-based citations for GRASS GIS in scientific literature has begun to rise.

The current publication list is here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#GRASS_GIS

Whenever somebody cites GRASS GIS, either as the overall project or a particular version by the GRASS DOI (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176030) in the references of a digital scientific journal article (or book), this gets picked up by an digital publication infrastructure in the background, called Crossref.

This works already for a significant number of scientific journals (inlcuding those of AGU and EGU. Current list of confirmed journals here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#Greenlist:_Journals_and_Publications_with_confirmed_CrossRef-listed_software_DOI_references_to_OSGeo_Projects)

Unfortunately this does not apply (yet) for conference proceedings/preprints from AGU, EGU or OSGeo FOSS4G.

The Crossref-infrastructure allows to search for and discover scientific publications which give due credit to the GRASS community.

I would like to encourage everybody who's publishing their GRASS-based scientific works  to cite GRASS GIS by its DOI, so we can later discover and share the publication.

The GDAL project is a bit ahead on the curve, their DOI-based references have been growing strongly sind 2022 (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#Greenlist:_Journals_and_Publications_with_confirmed_CrossRef-listed_software_DOI_references_to_OSGeo_Projects)

I'm optimistic that we will see a similar pickup in due credit for GRASS GIS soon.

Best,
Peter



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